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Q1 2018 – Conference Call
May 14th, 2018

Dr. Burkhard Lohr, CEO
Thorsten Boeckers, CFO
Q1 2018 - Conference Call - May 14th, 2018 Dr. Burkhard Lohr, CEO Thorsten Boeckers, CFO - K+S ...
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    Q1 2018 – Promising Start into the Year

                      Highlights                                               Financials
   Revenues and EBITDA up versus last year        € million                        Q1/17   Q1/18        YoY
   Higher product availability (mainly Bethune) Revenues                           1,126   1,170        +4%
   FCF significantly improved                       t/o Potash                      474     489         +3%
                                                     t/o Salt                        611     636         +4%
   Net debt/EBITDA down to 6.7x
                                                   D&A                               -74     -90        -22%
   Challenges: late start fertilizer season,      EBITDA                            211     237        +12%
    Werra output, salt prices, FX, higher freights   t/o Potash                       81     121        +49%
    EBITDA in €m
                                                     t/o Salt                        135     121        -11%
                             -11
                                                   EBIT I                            137     147         +7%
                       64               -32
                                                   Adjusted net profit                95      84        -12%
                                    Main effects:
                 5                  - Logistics      Adjusted EPS (€)                0.49    0.44       -12%
                                               237
      211                                              Operating cash flow           267     233        -13%
                                                         Adj. free cash flow          55     143       >100%
      Q1/17   Price   Volume/   FX   Other     Q1/18
                        Mix          effects           CapEx                         277      63        -78%
                                      (net)
                                                       Net debt/EBITDA               8.1     6.7          -
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                     Potash and Magnesium Products

                                 K+S Average Selling Price Development
                                                                                                               Market
                                                                                             K+S
                                                                                                                  Overall good demand
                                                                                            (in €/t)
                                                                                                                  However, delayed spring application in
Basis: Q1 2014

                                                                                                                   Europe due to unfavorable weather (cold &
                                                                 Peers                                             wet)
                                                                (in US$/t)
                            Brazil
                     (US$/t, Granular, cfr)
                                                                                                                  Recovery of MOP prices continued
                                                                                                                  Specialty-prices to follow trend in MOP, but
                          2014                2015           2016                  2017          2018              still down YoY

   € million
                                                                                                               Financials
                                        Q1/17        Q2/17   Q3/17    Q4/17          FY/17         Q1/18
   Revenues                                   474      387     358           485      1,704            489        ASP lower than last year due to:
   EBITDA                                      81       71      42            74          269          121            Product mix: More product from Bethune
                 Margin                   17%         18%     12%        15%              16%          25%            FX
   EBIT                                        42       31       2             6           81           53        EBITDA-margin considerably improved
   Avg. selling price (€/t)                   260      252     253           250          254          252        Cash Unit Costs tangibly down due to
   Sales volumes (m tons)                 1.82        1.54    1.41       1.94             6.71         1.94        higher volumes and Bethune improvement
   Cash Unit Costs 1                          216      205     224           212          214          190        Werra production up YoY, but ripple-effects
                                                                                                                   from 2016 and 2017
1 (Revenues          – EBITDA) / Sales volumes.
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Salt

                290
                 38
                              276          271         276
                                                                        262      Non de-icing
                                                                        31          Revenues moderately down YoY despite
                86
                                                                         82          flat volumes
Non de-icing

                64                                                       52
                                                                                    ASP at €107 (Q1/17: €120)
                                                                                      Greater share of lower yielding industrial
                103                                                      98            salt products
                                                                                      Negative FX impact
               Q1/17         Q2/17         Q3/17       Q4/17            Q1/18
                                  Revenues (€ million)
               Consumer      Food processing Industrial salt   Chemical salt

                61
                              54                       55
                                                                                 De-icing
                                           50                           53
                                                                                    Q1/18 volumes significantly up
                                                                        6.9          compared to last year’s first quarter
De-icing

               5.1                                                                  Main demand came from the US at
                                                       4.0                           lower prices
                             0.6           1.0
                                                                                    Demand in Europe slightly down YoY
               Q1/17        Q2/17         Q3/17       Q4/17         Q1/18

                       Volumes (in million tons)      ASP (in €/ ton)

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   Guidance 2018 confirmed: EBITDA1 to be significantly up

   € million
                                                                                                                                 Significant
                                                                                                                                  increase
                                                                                       Main effects:
                                                                                       - Planning assumption:   Main effects:
                                                                                         1.21 EUR/USD           + Sigmundshall
                                                                                                                - Freights

                                                            Main effects:
                                                            + Bethune
                                                            + Potash volumes
             577                                              (weather related)
                                                            + Tangibly higher salt
                                 Main effects:                volumes
                                 + Potash prices

             Actual                      Price               Volume/Mix                    Currency                   Other       2018e
              2017                                                                                                    effects
                                                                                                                       (net)
1 The   basis for EBITDA is EBIT I, that only includes the realized result from operating forecast hedges.

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What we’ve done – what our next steps are

                      Update on Shaping 2030

                  !   Setting up project management

                  !   Preparing decision on new organization and reporting lines
  Ongoing tasks

                  !   Start of bottom-up validation of synergies (> €150 m by 2020)

                  !   Management remuneration (LTI) linked to share price performance

                  !    First concept about future organization and KPIs

                  !   Bottom-up validation of synergies done – confident to reach at least € 150 m
  Next to come

                  !   Projects to lift synergies are starting

                  !   Final concept about future organization incl. KPIs

                  !   Sustainability targets and KPIs defined. Possible use of solid residues clarified

            We will keep you posted with updates on our Strategy at our CMD on 5 Sept 18
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Q1 2018 – Conference Call
May 14th, 2018

Dr. Burkhard Lohr, CEO
Thorsten Boeckers, CFO
K+S Aktiengesellschaft

Backup
K+S Group
    Guidance: Housekeeping items

                                                                 FY 2016              FY 2017               FY 2018e
Group
   Revenues                                                      € 3.5bn              € 3.6 bn          tangible increase
      EBITDA                                                     € 519m               € 577m           significant increase
      EBIT I                                                     € 229m               € 271m           significant increase
      Financial result                                           € -52m               € -26m       significantly more negative
                                                                                                  significant improvement, still
      Free cash flow, adjusted                                    € -777               € -390
                                                                                                              negative
      CapEx                                                      € 1.2bn              € 811m           significant decrease
      Average FX-rate (EUR/USD)                                    1.11                 1.13                  1.21
      Weather-related outage days                              ~200 days              ~25 days               0 days
Potash and Magnesium Products
      Global sales volumes1                                   ~ 66m tons             ~ 69m tons          at least stable
      K+S sales volumes                                        6.1m tons             6.7m tons         significant increase
      Average selling price                                      253 €/t              254 €/t            slight increase
Salt
      K+S sales volumes                                         19m tons             20m tons           tangible increase
         t/o de-icing                                           10m tons             11m tons          significant increase
         t/o non de-icing                                        9m tons             10m tons            slight increase
1   Incl. ̴ 4mt of potassium sulphate and potash grades with lower mineral content
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  Financial Calendar

Annual General Meeting                                           15 May 2018
BMO Farm To Market Conference with CEO, New York                 17 May 2018
Roadshow Frankfurt with CFO, Equinet                             17 May 2018
Roadshow London with CFO, Morgan Stanley                         18 May 2018
Morgan Stanley ChemTech Day, London                              23 May 2018
Commerzbank/mBank Conference, Warsaw                              5 June 2018
Deutsche Bank dbAccess Conference, Berlin                       6/7 June 2018
Credit Suisse Chemicals and Agriculture Conference, London        7 June 2018
Société Générale Conference, Nice                                 8 June 2018
Roadshow Hamburg, DZ Bank                                        13 June 2018
J.P. Morgan Materials Conference, London                         13 June 2018
Half-yearly Financial Report H1/18                             14 August 2018
Capital Markets Day in Bethune, Canada (save-the-date)       5 September 2018

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Laura Schumbera                     Martin Heistermann                  Alexander Enge
Junior Investor Relations Manager   Senior Investor Relations Manager   Investor Relations Manager
Phone: +49 561 / 9301-1607          Phone: +49 561 / 9301-1403          Phone: +49 561 / 9301-1885
Fax:     +49 561 / 9301-2425        Fax:    +49 561 / 9301-2425         Fax:    +49 561 / 9301-2425
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